As soon as you close your eyes and fall asleep slowly, you have this sensation of falling from a height or from some stairs and it jolts you awake.
So you've had a long, rough day and you dim out the lights, set the room temperature, pull over your quilt, comfort yourself under the sheets and begin your sweet and calming journey towards your favorite dreamland. As soon as you close your eyes and fall asleep slowly, you have this sensation of falling from a height or from some stairs and it jolts you awake. Ouch, why did that happen?
As you fall asleep slowly, your heart rate slows down, your breathing rate decreases and your body temperature drops. The twitch in the muscles occur due to the downshifting of the nervous system and these transitions.
The irregular sleep cycle or less sleep as well as anxiety, stress, fatigue and worry can trigger this sensation of 'falling from height' or 'shock' right before you fall asleep, and that can momentarily wake you up. Caffeine and other strong drinks can also affect your sleep cycle and cause such disturbances to your sleep.
A research on hypnic jerk suggests that "an archaic reflex to the brain's misinterpretation of muscle relaxation with the onset of sleep as a signal that a sleeping primate is falling out of a tree. The reflex may also have had selective value by having the sleeper readjust or review his or her sleeping position in a nest or on a branch in order to assure that a fall did not occur."
Which literally means that your brain misunderstands the relaxing of your muscles as a symbol of actually falling and tenses up your muscles in order to brace you for the fall. In other words, it makes you feel like you're falling in order to make sure you don't fall. Funny, right?
This involuntary moment or miscommunication between your muscles and your brain is so common that 70% of people face it occasionally. This is not a serious health or medical disease and so it doesn't have any harmful effects on your sleep or your health.
So if you face anything like this again, just go back to your dream world without thinking much.


Two wheeler manufacturers are having fun launching leading models into the Indian market. With the launch of the new V-Storm 1000 adveture bike, at the Auto-Expo, 2014, Suzuki has also stepped into this scenario.
Suzuki's entry into the adventure bike class has been marked by the new V-Storm 1000 .
The Suzuki V-Strom 1000 is an adventure tourer and comes with styling unique to adventure class motorcycles. The Suzuki V-Strom 1000 is powered by a four-stroke, 1037cc, liquid-cooled and V-Twin engine, mated to a six-speed gearbox.
The bike features an upright riding position with an adjustable wind screen. The motorcycle comes with inverted telescopic front forks, and a rear monoshock and braking power in the form of dual discs with a 110/80 x 19 tyre up front and a single disc on a 150/70 x 17 tyre at the rear, with ABS available as standard.
The high-placed headlight gives the bike a distinct appeal with a beaked front-end. The instrument cluster features multi-information display and high-quality switchgear with ride mode selection. Sporting black cladding around the tank, the V-Strom imposes a masculine yet agile look. This new motorcycle gets an LED tail-light, with indicators showing off a honeycomb design.
Suzuki V-Strom 1000 is brought to India through the CBU route and is priced at Rs 15 lakh. Booking for this adventure bike has already started. But the adventure lovers will have to wait till the end of this month to have an experience of this creation.


Recently, there's been a 5 day poetry challenge going around Facebook.
Both Greg Longenecker, who is in the latest New Resonance anthology from Red Moon Press and who edited our local haiku anthology for three years, and Susan Burch, a haiku poet who recently discovered scifaiku, challenged me to post a haiku a day for five days.
I like all five of these, but the Day 3 one really grabs you.


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By Kris Willcox
The first and only haircut I have given was to my mother, and because we were both nervous I took my time setting up a single-seat beauty parlor in her room at the hospital in Las Cruces, New Mexico. First, I settled her in a chair by the window where the light was good, and handed her a mirror so she could supervise my work. Then I arranged my tools. The Walmart barber's kit came with scissors, electric clippers with attachments for varying lengths, a dozen cheap combs, and a nylon cape to catch the trimmings. Under the cape she wore a hospital gown; under the gown, an adult diaper. We were citizens of a world we didn't recognize, trying to make things pleasant.
My first step as hairdresser was to gather her grey-brown hair into a ponytail and cut it at the base of her neck.
"Just a bob at first," I said, as if I'd done this before. I made the cut a few chunks at a time, working the blades with my left hand until I held her severed ponytail in my right. I felt horror, but also a small thrill: in my hands was the chopped hair of the person who'd told me I must never go after my baby sister's hair with scissors. I'd ruined my mother's hair, but in that strange principality, I'd done something brave. Cutting it was better than waiting for the chemotherapy already working its way through her, attacking cancer and hair follicles alike, to remove it for us. Unlike the hand-off of her body to surgeons we had just met, lab techs we'd never see, and strangers on internet message boards, the haircut was a choice. A way to sidestep the chemotherapy and get there first, on our own ticket.
I evened up the cut, asking her to confer on length in her mirror. She was calmer than she'd been in days, her eyes directed to the window with its view of the parking lot, and, past that, the Organ Mountains just outside Las Cruces. The changes ahead would be magical in their suddenness—new doctors, different hospitals, new tumors appearing almost overnight—but on that day, we met change on equal terms. We were prepared.
My mother had been hospitalized for complications from her debulking surgery, a common first step in cancer treatment in which a surgeon excises all the disease that can be seen and safely removed. For my mother, this meant three "ectomies": hysterectomy, oophorectomy and lymphadenectomy—removal of the uterus, ovaries, and lymph nodes in one leg. The surgeon-oncologist described her abdominal cavity as spotted with white grains of sand, tiny metastases of uterine papillary serous carcinoma or UPSC, which starts in the uterine lining. UPSC can appear as dots or sometimes in layer form, the way lichen covers a rock. Like ovarian cancer, it is often diagnosed late. Mom's was identified at stage 4, and had already metastasized to the liver and abdominal cavity. I skimmed clinical studies that put her life expectancy at two years.
Her surgeon-oncologist advised debulking surgery, followed by radiation—a lot of it—alternating with "power washes" of chemo for as long as she could take them. The idea of flushing those white grains out of hiding was appealing, but also sounded caustic. Mom worried, as did my sister Janna and I, that these treatments might be worse than the cancer, and at stage four. . . Our sentences trailed off.
"Yes, quality of life is a factor," her doctor agreed, but seemed to have no more to say. Quietly, we switched to a female oncologist who told Mom that while she should probably put the idea of a cure out of her mind, the cancer might be fenced into a chronic condition, like a wildfire with hotspots. We liked that idea. This new doctor advised chemo, alone, given the stage. . . By then, we knew how to understand the downward tilt of those sentences.
After the debulking in Albuquerque, she went home to Las Cruces and began chemotherapy but was beset by severe abdominal pain and nausea. The organic food we'd urged her to eat was stopped in her gut and nothing helped—not laxatives or tea or gentle exercise. By the time Janna arrived, our uncle had been in Las Cruces for a week, watching Mom worsen. When it was my turn, I flew from Boston and went straight to the hospital.
Her abdomen was so swollen she looked as though she'd been pumped full of air. To relieve the pressure, they drained her stomach with a gastric tube threaded down her nose. The tube became dislodged during the first night I was with her, and was put back into place by young, inexperienced nurses. Nothing in the cancer books I'd read on the plane prepared me for the helplessness I felt while the tube was placed incorrectly, and incorrectly again, then finally the right way. She wept in pain and relief when it was over.
In Radiology, she was asked to lie face-down on a what looked like a human-sized specimen tray. They tipped her this way and that, taking images from different angles, and I feared that in her weakened state she'd slide off the table onto the floor. The procedure was intimate and humiliating, but it was the only way to determine what was wrong—whether a tumor blocked the intestines, or a section had simply ceased to work.
I left the room for each x-ray and, in between, I stroked her hair, singing the only song I could think of, "I've Been Working on the Railroad," slowed to lullaby speed. I felt ridiculous, and mildly sick myself from the tilting table and the sense that I was assisting in her degradation.
"This is torture," she whispered, and I wanted to say They're only trying to help you, but I didn't. Even now, it's difficult to think of the radiology tech attempting to lighten her mood with banter until I made the throat-slashing motion for no more. I'd rather think of the cheerful haircut, but it's unfair to privilege one memory over the other. Both are true. Both form the story of what happened to my mother.
I have a photograph of Mom on Easter Sunday in 1948 or '49, when she was about six. She and her mother are dressed for Mass, smiling in front of a large, flowering tree. My grandmother is not yet thirty and looks like one of the Andrews Sisters with her smart hat and gloves. Mom is wearing a straw hat, her hair in braids.
I know, because she told us often, that those braids were woven mercilessly, her mother raking through the tangles while she sat, crying, on a kitchen stool. When she had daughters of her own, Mom cut our hair into Mia Farrow pixie cuts. More than once I was mistaken for a boy, but when I complained she said, "It looks darling. And it's better than what happened to me."
After her diagnosis, I cut my hair short again, but the features of my adult face—prominent nose, weak chin—are not the elfin sort that look delicate with short hair. It was practical, that's all. I had a five and seven-year-old at home, and trips to help care for Mom. I had no time for hair.
We took pictures of Mom's haircut with my phone. She was happy with the way it looked, and happier still that I'd put down my scissors and wouldn't be using the clippers yet. She saved her ponytail in a Ziploc bag.
Mom identified with her hair. Patrons and co-workers at the library where she worked sometimes called her "Braids." Tossing the ponytail into the trash would have been like throwing out a finger or an ear, but as soon as it was sealed in the bag, I had a powerful urge to throw it away. Discarding it would be an act of faith that the hair would grow back, that we were making the best of things, staying open to change. We were not simply walking through the steps that would lead to her death.
By the next morning, her hair came out with a gentle pull of the comb so I buzzed it to two inches. Then one. By mid-afternoon we decided it was time for boot camp—Private Starr, reporting for duty—and I took it down to a quarter inch. The nurses were impressed. Mom tried on her chemo hats for the first time, one black and one white. I told her she looked like a cast member of "The Crucible," and she laughed. I felt bold. Brave enough for anything.
What seemed brave to me might have seemed more like bravado to my new friends on the message boards, but they were kind and accepting. Or I imagined them so; these were people I knew only through words and thumbnail pictures, but in my mind they were a sort of counsel of older siblings who could show me the way. I imagined the message boards as a kind of ladder made of the Kubler-Ross stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. With all these rungs below them, the most advanced posters sat pillowed atop a California-style Zen, dispensing wisdom to newbies like me. Down where I swept up strands of Mom's hair and she napped, we didn't know bravery from a river in Egypt.
"Is this carpet bombing of radiation a good idea?" I asked once, incredulously. No one answered. I wish I'd known better than to say carpet bombing to people undoubtedly facing such treatments themselves. Here's how I read their silence: They were letting me climb my own ladder. Letting me think, for a while, that I could beat cancer with my Walmart clippers.
Because she was geographically closer, my sister spent more time in Las Cruces. She was the nearest moon and I was a satellite with a larger, more elliptical orbit. At home, I was up to my neck in chores, family and work. My notebook entries from that time are scraps:
"It is selfish to write about her when I could be talking to her instead."
"It is selfish to tell her story as if it is my story."
"If I don't write it now, sadness could make it impossible when she's gone."
Home and New Mexico were separate lives. Every six weeks or so I'd come back to her apartment or the timelessness of the hospital where I moved in a peaceful stupor, shuffling from cafeteria to bathroom to chapel. I never ventured out for long because, if I did, the languor was snapped in two by the brisk visit of a specialist we'd been waiting to see for days.
As scaffolding for the hours, I invented routines, like parking Mom's car under the same leafless tree in the parking lot. One early morning I took a picture from this spot, with the hospital and dawn sky behind it, pale blue flushed with pink. It felt like photographing a new home. In Boston, my family carried on without me, but here I had a separate life, centered on this parking space and my newly adopted routines: the local NPR station on the car radio, the route between mom's apartment and grocery store. I am really quite adaptable, I thought as I locked her car and walked back into the hospital, past Emergency and Reception to my preferred bank of elevators. She might never leave, but neither did anything have to change. We could simply move at this incremental pace, endlessly dividing the distance between now and whatever came next.
In February, the three of us were in her apartment when the oncologist—another one—called from Albuquerque. PET and CAT scans revealed progress of the cancer in several places, including her liver. The oncologist said, "I'd like to see your mother move closer to one of you."
"To get different treatments?" we asked mechanically.
"No," she said. "Because of what the cancer is already doing."
Each of us took a turn on the phone, asking the same things, receiving calm versions on the same answer: It's time for her to move closer to one of her daughters.
Her bedroom was bright with New Mexico sun even with the shades drawn. We were here to receive this information together, yet, now that we had it, we didn't know what to say to each other. The long naps of hospital time were over and we needed to move her, but how could we possibly do that? Janna lived in Tacoma, which was far more affordable than Boston and an hour's drive to Swedish Hospital in Seattle. Mom was willing to move, but how could Janna manage Mom's care and keep up with her job? We dove into research on retirement villages in Tacoma and Janna applied for family leave.
Mom's symptoms multiplied. We tired ourselves by worrying that every little headache meant that the cancer had stormed into her brain.
And then, one day, it did mean that.
The news of eight brain tumors came days before her move from New Mexico to Washington and put us into a stunned state of rapid planning. The tumors explained her recent headaches and fever. And it meant that a critical border had been crossed—the blood-brain barrier, where chemotherapy cannot reach and radiation is especially difficult. It was the worst batch of news we'd received yet, and there was no time to contemplate, or panic.
The morning that movers packed her belongings into a truck, she was in Albuquerque having treatments to shrink the tumors. Janna took her from Las Cruces to Albuquerque by car for the radiation, then from Albuquerque to Seattle by plane and, finally, by car again, from Seattle to her new apartment in Tacoma—feats that made a haircut seem trivial.
Then, somehow, there was steady ground again. The radiation paused the tumors in their growth. Mom unpacked her boxes in a retirement village overlooking Commencement Bay on the southern end of Puget Sound. Janna became the Maypole around which all logistical ribbons were twisted: driving Mom to chemo with help from Seattle relatives, finding her a dentist, pharmacy, grocery store, bank and post office in Tacoma. I came from Boston as often as I could but increasingly I was background—sometimes even an impediment—to a system that ran largely without me.
When her blood levels of CA-125, a marker for certain cancers, shot higher than ever and stayed high, it took me seconds to confirm what this meant. I was at home at my desk, and Mom was in Tacoma, under the care of a yet another oncologist in Seattle. This doctor was soft in manner, but did not prevaricate: the available treatments, including some of the very latest, had been tried. The risks of treatment now outweighed the potential benefit. As Janna reported this over the phone, I felt fear rear up in me like a startled horse. I put the phone down and pulled books from the shelves, but I was too frantic to read, so I went back to my desk and emailed two cannabis dispensaries and a residential hospice in Tacoma.
My mother worked in libraries for decades. She viewed information-gathering as responsible work, and a preventative strategy. Chance favors the prepared. Books on my shelf, chapters in the library, Internet links beyond number all represented tasks. A focal point. But I had reached the page where one reference did not lead to another. I knew that my job as researcher, quest leader, and hospital beautician was over.
Even before I arrived in Seattle, I was aware it was the final stop. Her last procedure—a shunt to drain her liver—was successful, but in placing it, they observed a massive tumor between her liver and pancreas. Janna told me that the pain had kept her from sleeping for days. There was also something wrong with her right eye; it didn't focus to the same point as the left. The doctors said it was probably a tumor pressing on the optical nerve.
This was not followed by recommendations. It was just information.
All the way from Boston I nursed a fear that my mother wouldn't recognize me, but when I entered her hospital room she looked up and said, "Kristen." I blurted out what I'd rehearsed on the plane: "You've taught me to be a loving mother. You always made us feel surrounded in love." She reached up through her tubing and said, "Come down here so I can surround you."
I thought the end would be different.
I thought there would be a time—short, but measurable—when she had left her mind but not her body, and decision-making would shift clearly to us. But that is not how the pain medication worked. It took her partially, in some moments but not in others. We knew from her medical directives that she wanted a "Do Not Resuscitate" order, but this could only be enacted if we skirted the rules and misrepresented her state, or states, of awareness. When we asked her if she wanted us to make arrangements to move to hospice, she did not want to be pressed for an answer. "I'd like to go home and think it over," she said.
She was given Dilaudid, a potent opioid, by IV. Her pain eased but she slipped backwards in time, asking if her friend Kathy from Taos was coming to see her (Kathy had, months before). Later, she seemed to think that the nurses would be training her to use the hospital's fire hoses. She told Janna she wasn't sure she was prepared. Prepared how? Janna asked.
"Well," she said, looking puzzled, "will we need a costume? Or a partner?"
For days, we were in that half-light with her, chairs pulled up to her bed as though she were a campfire. The part of her most available to touch, through blankets and tubing, was her head. Her hair had grown back about an inch, with a soft but unfamiliar texture, like frayed acrylic yarn.
Our tower of the hospital faced an identical tower in which each room was a cell of light. I imagined from the outside we must look like figures in an Edward Hopper: two women seated, one lying down.
A friend, Masha, texted to ask if Mom had any favorite flowers.
"I'm sorry, I don't know," I answered, adding feebly: "Anything will be appreciated."
Mom was past asking, the Dilaudid too thick for her to make sense of the question. It was as if we'd wrapped her head in gauze to help her see. Facts beyond who am I and who are you were adrift: time, location, objects. Even her hands. I saw her staring at them with a soft, bemused smile.
"Well," she murmured, "these might be useful."
I don't think she had a favorite flower, or quite trusted the notion of favorites. If I'd asked her to name one, she likely would have clarified: What season did I mean, and what location? Was I asking about color, or scent, or hardiness of character? I can tell you some of the flowers she grew, if attention is a grudging sign of favor. They're what she would have called "Plain Janes." A Plain Jane is an honest figure who knows her value, but never preens.
Mom grew potted geraniums in Spokane with stems like arthritic fingers, and cornflowers in the garden of that house. She planted hollyhocks in the side yard that didn't come up until years after we sold the house. Equally aggravating were lilies of the valley in Salt Lake, which she did not cultivate so much as submit to in a yard where little else would grow. After her divorce, she moved to the New Mexican desert, and loved the tough flowers that grew there, the tall white yucca, and brief blossoms of prickly pear.
At her bedside in Seattle, I began a list of things she loved: bagpipes, burned cookies, shape-note singing, brightly colored socks. Later, I asked family and friends to add to the list, growing it as if to prove how much she loved life—her specific life. I think Mom would have enjoyed the list, even as she spotted the exercise: A list is not a life. A life is not a collection of favorites.
Masha sent yellow roses with baby's breath. Mom could barely see, but understood that flowers had been brought and asked, "Did someone tell her which flowers I like?" She was asleep again before I could think of an answer.
She returned from deep dives into sleep to short periods of alertness, asking for the time or a sip or water. Once, she woke with an indignant question: "What have you done with my blue folder?" There was no folder, but we pretended to look. She slept again, then woke confused: Were we ready to check out? Were the kids in bed? Was it spring?
Her acuity could return suddenly, as the medication ebbed, and when it did, she was clearer than clear: no DNR, no hospice. She did not even want to cancel her appointment for chemo the next day. In hushed voices, the hospital staff led us through the options. If we wanted hospice, they could help us find a facility with space, and an ambulance for transport. If we took her home, the retirement village in Tacoma had to have a skilled-nursing bed available. Mom was tired of being asked.
"I agree it's something to consider," was all she'd say.
Her oncologist made a visit. To his gentle suggestion that she ease off treatment, my sister added, "I think maybe we're all coming to the same page?"
"But not the same line," Mom answered crisply.
The doctors told us that without a DNR, they were required to attempt resuscitation if she "coded," despite the vanishingly small chance that she would return to consciousness and the near certainty that it would cause pain.
Palliative care is about choice. No one should assume that they know what the dying person needs or wants, so you ask questions and provide options. The Pain Button was created so that the patient can give herself a bump of medication in addition to the IV drip and no one but the patient is supposed to use it. This is complicated when the patient is weak and hallucinating from medication she's already had, yet appears to be in pain. Then questions are, at one level, a way of seeking information, but also a path around the rules. Or rather, through them: Mom, are you in pain? Do you want your Pain Button? Shall I put it in your hand for you? Here—it's in your hand. Can you press the button? I can put your finger on the button. Do you need me to press it for you? Do you remember what this is for?
Are you in pain, Mom?
In my notebook was a line from a memoir in which the author describes his grandmother's last breath, "like a raft pushed gently from the shore." And it was, in fact, something like that when my mother died on the 23rd of November, just after 4:00 in the morning.
Her brother, Lars, and his wife Margaret had come to see her the night before. We played recordings of Mom singing with her brothers on her 70th birthday— "Santa Lucia," "Lil' Liza Jane" and "Poor Man Lazarus." Lars said he wanted to sing her one more. He sang "Ol' Man River," in a quavering baritone, and wept. Then they went home.
Janna and I slept to the sound of her deep, open-mouth breathing and in our sleep, we both registered a change in the depth and pace of her breath to something more like panting. Janna went to her. At the touch of Janna's hand on her shoulder, Mom turned her head, but her breathing remained the same. Janna stayed for a few minutes, then went back to her cot.
The silence woke me first.
After hours of listening to her ragged breath, amazed at the body's insistence, the quiet was stunning. I gently woke Janna and we went to Mom's bed. No breath and no pulse.
The silence around us was a medium. A new form of air. My mother's there, I thought, but I will never again see her alive. She is dead. Yet her eyes were slightly open. Did that mean she was awake in the moment of her death, and if so, afraid? My children often ask me not to leave their room until they're asleep. I think my mother was beyond such a thought when she died, but her half-open eyes meant she didn't die in her sleep, exactly. She died in ours.
A raft bobs in the water, lifting a little as it's freed of its moorings and then, before you recognize the strength of the current bearing it away, it's a dot on the horizon. And then it's gone.
The first time I held my mother's hair in my hands, I thought about Walt Whitman's answer, in "Song of Myself," to that child who comes to him with fistfuls of grass:
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full
hands;
How could I answer the child?. . . .I do not know what it
is any more than he.
Maybe it's God's handkerchief, Whitman guessed. Or the flag of my disposition.
I thought of Whitman again when we emptied Mom's safety deposit box at the bank and found, tucked among insurance policies and jewelry, the bag of her hair. The sight of it gave me a quick pulse of fear, but at what I didn't know. The hope that it might grow? The certainty that it wouldn't?
Her hair did not bring me comfort. I was washed, instead, in unanswerable longing. A child's longing for her mother. A mother's longing for her own life.
Sometimes, when I'm standing at the stove or doing some other small, household chore, like hanging a child's coat in the closet, I feel a sudden longing for her, followed by the piercing thought that I can't have her. And for some period of time after, it's as though I'm sitting in a boat on a quiet lake, staring into space and feeling the slight movements of the water. Once I've reabsorbed the idea of her absence, in the seconds or minutes this takes, I come back to stirring or straightening or whatever task had occupied me. I return to the world motherless, but quieted, again, by the fact of it.
Kris Willcox lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with her family. Her work has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, Cimarron Review, Portland Review, Tin House online, the Boston Globe, and Mutha Magazine, among other publications, and she is a regular contributor to UU World magazine.
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L'església de Sant Jaume Apòstol, situada a la plaça de l'Església 1, en el municipi de Montanejos, a la comarca de l'Alt Millars, és un lloc de culte catalogat com Bé de Rellevància Local, dins del Pla General d'Ordenació Urbana, amb codi 12.08.079-002, i data de publicació en el BOP 6 de març de 2012

L'església de Sant Jaume Apòstol de Montanejos està inclosa en l'arxiprestat 9, conegut com de La nostra Senyora Verge de l'Esperança, amb seu a Onda.

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Es tracta d'un edifici exempt, dedicat al patró del municipi, Sant Jaume Apòstol. Es considera que la seva construcció es va dur a terme entre 1782 i 1798, sobre la planta de l'anterior temple datat del .

La planta és de nau única amb capelles laterals dedicades a diferents advocaciones de sants.

A la zona del creuer s'eleva una cúpula que se sosté sobre quatre petxines decorades amb pintures murals (realitzades al fresc per Luis Antonio Planes, d'estil academicista) dels quatre Evangelistes amb els seus símbols, datades del .

La façana es complementa amb un campanar amb tres campanes, dues d'elles datades en 1869, les conegudes com Maria del Rosarii Sant Jaume Apòstol, mentre que la tercera, anomenada Jesús, Maria, Josep, data de 1914.

A l'interior destaca el retaule major, recentment restaurat com la resta de la decoració interior.

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Monuments d'interès local de l'Alt Millars
Esglésies barroques de l'Alt Millars
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is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Iwaki, Fukushima and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the first of his three terms in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture in 1987 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000. In 2012, he won a seat in the House of Representatives for the Chugoku region, and in 2014 returned to Fukushima which he has represented since 2014.

On 26 April 2017, he became the minister responsible for disaster reconstruction in the Tohoku Region, after the previous minister, Masahiro Imamura, resigned after making insensitive remarks about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which had hit the Tohoku region.

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Living people
1948 births
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
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Italians Protest To Urge Govt To Grant Gay Civil Unions
Italy civil union
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Saturday in nearly 100 cities across Italy to urge the government to permit gay and lesbian couples to have civil unions and legally recognized families.
Mirco Pierro, 39, rallied in front of the Pantheon in Rome with his partner and twin infants, saying he wanted "to defend the rights of our children, not just our rights." Pierro and his partner were married in Los Angeles but their union is not recognized in Italy and only one of them has parental rights.
"They are here. They exist, they are part of our families, and it is unfair that they do not have the same rights as other Italian children," he said. "This is the main reason that bring us here."
The gay rights group Arcigay estimated that 1 million people participated in the demonstrations, calling it "a historic day for our country."
The Italian government has pledged to pass legislation on civil unions for homosexual couples, along with measures allowing both parents, not just the biological parent, custody in a homosexual union. Campaigners say the lack of parental recognition causes problems on a daily basis for gay parents, from simple school permission forms to health care decisions.
Italy lags behind many of its European neighbors in conferring such rights due to strong opposition in this predominantly Roman Catholic nation. The opposition has submitted over 6,000 amendments to the proposed civil unions legislation in a bid to stop its passage. It is scheduled to be debated next Thursday in the Senate.


Speaking at a business forum in Cape Town on Tuesday morning, British Prime Minister May addressed delegates and media about the intentions behind her visit to Africa. She will also be visiting Kenya and Nigeria in the next few days, in a bid to "strengthen ties" with these countries after Brexit.
Why is Theresa May in South Africa?
Her keynote speech ended with several questions from the international media, and two from local media. SABC and BusinessDay were the only two outlets who got to ask May a question, and both had one thing in mind – the land question.
Since Donald Trump's fact-devoid tweet on land expropriation broke the internet in South Africa, there is a keen interest to gauge what other world leaders think about the issue. When asked by SABC, Theresa May confirmed that she supported Cyril Ramaphosa's approach to land reform.
Land reform or land expropriation?
In fact, the Prime Minister perhaps played her cards right on this one – the process of land reform is a lot less contentious than expropriation without compensation.
Traditionally speaking, reform involves forms of compensation and the awarding of title deeds to rehomed residents. Expropriation without compensation flirts with the idea that the state will take control of property – although, this is something that President Ramaphosa has denied he will pursue.


The centre is situated several kilometres from the nearest village or town. It is therefore necessary to think ahead when planning transport. Several buses pass the farm during the working week. Information can be obtained from the local council offices in Rambrouch or from the transport company CFL. It is possible to travel from Luxembourg City by train to Ettelbruck and then continue by bus to the farm.
At the weekend there is a bus from Luxembourg City to Ettelbruck and from Ettelbruck to Bilsdorf/Misärshaff.
The reservoir area has been designated as a water conservation area in accordance with the law of 24th June 1953. This water conservation area comprises two zones as indicated on the map. All camping is prohibited within these two zones (with the exception of Ferme Misère and subject to ministerial approval). Any infringement of this law will result in imprisonment or the imposition of a fine. It is therefore requested that all hikes be organised outside these two zones.
Please consult the map below. The zone surrounding the farm is marked by points 6,7,8,9 and 12. A copy of this map is available at Misärshaff.


WASHINGTON, D.C., May 4, 2015 – Today the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Mazda Motorsports, National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS), U-Haul and the Ad Council announced the high school and college winners of their fourth annual Project Yellow Light college scholarship competition. Project Yellow Light is a national contest and scholarship program that calls on students to create short videos educating their peers on the dangers of using mobile devices while driving.
Winners were selected from two age categories: high school juniors and seniors, and college students. The high school grand prize was awarded to Marlowe Lexvold of South Haven, Minnesota. The college grand prize was awarded to brothers Sam and Wrenn Senser from South Bend, Nebraska. The winning videos can be viewed here. Second and third place prizes were awarded to high school students Aneyza Clark of Dallas, Texas, and Ryan Robert Reid of Fairburn, Georgia, and college students Lindsey Brown of Culver City, California, and Tiago DeSouza of Hagerstown, Maryland. In addition to seeing their videos turned into PSAs, first place winners will receive $5,000 in college scholarship funding. Second-place and third place winners were awarded $2,000 and $1,000 scholarships, respectively. All scholarships were provided by Mazda Motorsports. U-Haul will also provide both first place winners with up to $2,500 in moving expenses.
This year's contest ran from October 31, 2014 through March 17, 2015 and received nearly 600 submissions.
Mazda is the number-one brand for road-racers across North America. Thousands of Mazda powered grassroots racers compete in various classes with the SCCA and NASA highlighted by Spec Miata, the world's largest spec class with over 2,500 cars built. In 2006 Mazda established the MAZDASPEED Motorsports Development Ladder to assist racers in moving up through the ranks. This includes the Mazda Road to Indy and the Mazda SportsCar Racing Academy. Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States and Mexico through nearly 700 dealers. Operations in Mexico are managed by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City. For more information on Mazda vehicles, including photography and B-roll, please visit the online Mazda media center at www.mazdausamedia.com.
Project Yellow Light is a film competition for high school juniors and seniors and college students designed to create compelling video stories that convince their peers to develop safe driving habits. The project was created by Julie, Lowell and Alex Garner in memory of their son/brother, Hunter who died tragically in a car crash in 2007. Each year the winner of the film competition receives The Hunter Garner Scholarship. Project Yellow Light/Hunter Garner Scholarship is a non-profit organization that began in Hunter's school, Riverbend High in Fredericksburg, VA, with aspirations to inspire and motivate youth all over America. The program is designed to give young adults a voice and a role in reversing the number of car crashes — the number one killer of teenagers and young adults in the U.S.
National Organizations for Youth Safety® (NOYS) is a coalition of national organizations and federal agencies who serve youth and focus on youth safety and health. Through this coalition, NOYS influences more than 80 million young people and their adult advisors. The mission of NOYS is to build partnerships that save lives, prevent injuries, and enhance safe and healthy lifestyles among all youth and encourage youth empowerment and leadership.
The Ad Council is a private, non-profit organization with a rich history of marshaling volunteer talent from the advertising and media industries to deliver critical messages to the American public. Having produced literally thousands of public service campaigns addressing the most pressing social issues of the day, the Ad Council has affected, and continues to affect, tremendous positive change by raising awareness, inspiring action and saving lives. To learn more about the Ad Council and its campaigns, visit Adcouncil.org, like us onFacebook, follow us onTwitteror view our PSAs onYouTube.


Agriculture Secretary Art Brown Jr. said today that the death last week of an Ocean County horse has been attributed to infection with the West Nile virus (WNV). This is the second equine death attributed to the virus. The first one occurred in August in Cape May County. According to State Veterinarian Dr. Ernest Zirkle, the horse became ill on September 12 and had to be euthanized on September 13. Blood and tissue samples from the horse were tested at NJDA's animal health laboratory for both Eastern and Western equine encephalitis as well as equine infectious anemia and WNV. Virus was found in the brain tissue using the fluorescent antibody technique. Of the diseases tested for, the results confirmed the presence of WNV only. Horses become infected with the WNV when infected mosquitoes bite them. The disease cannot be spread from horse to horse or from an infected horse to humans or domestic pets. Not all horses that contract WNV become ill. Last year, 25 horses on Long Island were clinically ill with neurological signs and there was evidence of WNV infection. Nine of those horses died or were euthanized. However, samples from clinically normal horses that were stablemates of the affected horses showed that more than one-quarter of them had also been infected with WNV but never exhibited any symptoms of the illness. In cooperation with the state Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health and Senior Services and USDA, NJDA has launched a proactive campaign to educate horse owners about the precautions they must take to decrease mosquito habitat, virtually the only way horse owners can minimize the chance of an animal being stricken with WNV. Recommended actions include decreasing mosquito habitats near homes and stable areas by emptying standing water from cans, tires, swimming pool covers, clogged gutters or other reservoirs which can serve as mosquito breeding sites and by frequently changing the fresh water in drinking troughs to prevent them from becoming breeding sites Although there is no preventive vaccine for WNV, equine encephalitis is a reportable disease in New Jersey and is treated symptomatically. Concerned horse owners should contact their veterinarians for additional information or consultation about specific cases of illness in their animals.
For more information on WNV or mosquito spraying, or to report dead birds and areas of standing water where mosquitoes breed, residents should call their local or county Departments of Health and mosquito control agencies or visit the web sites maintained by DHSS (www.state.nj.us/health), DEP (www.state.nj.us/dep/mosquito), the CDC (www.cdc.gov), and NJDA (www.state.nj.us/agriculture/westnile.htm).


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The Thirty Years' War
Graham Darby examines the nature and effects of the war that dominated the first half of the 17th century.
Graham Darby | Published in History Review Issue 40 September 2001
For those who wrestle with seventeenth-century Europe there is no more complex topic than the Thirty Years' War. It is also an issue that generates a large number of questions in examinations - on the origins, course and consequences of the war. In addition, there can be questions about its nature: how far was it a war of religion, what was its social and economic impact and what were its military and financial implications? It is the purpose of this article to help clarify the latter topics, beginning with religion.
A Religious War?
This is a difficult issue. For one thing, in early modern times religion and politics were inextricably intertwined, so that our present-day approach, which makes a clear distinction between the two, is often inappropriate. Secondly, early modern language was couched in religious terminology to such an extent that it is often difficult to distinguish between what was, perhaps, formulaic or habitual and what was sincere and meaningful. And thirdly, in our secular age, it is quite simply very difficult to appreciate the extent and depth of religious feeling in the seventeenth century.
Was this the last religious war? Given that Protestant England and Catholic Spain had made peace in 1604, and the Protestant Dutch rebels had reached an accommodation with Catholic Spain in 1609, it could be argued that the outbreak of war in Germany, in which the fate of Protestantism seemed to be at stake, brought religious issues back to the forefront of European politics. Historians have usually suggested that the Thirty Years' War began as a religious war, but became more secular as it progressed, and this formulation is a useful one.


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AFL-CIO Takes Over San Diego Labor Council, Ousts Leadership
San Diego Labor Council Leaders Form New Coalition After Being Ousted by National AFL-CIO
After months of turmoil, the national AFL-CIO and President Richard Trumka decided to take over the San Diego Imperial-Counties Labor Council, ousting its leaders.
Mickey Kasparian speaks at Voice of San Diego's Politifest 2016 / Photo by Vito Di Stefano
Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, a federation of national labor unions, ordered the removal of leaders of the local San Diego Imperial-Counties Labor Council on Monday and put it under a receivership.
The move prompted several local unions, including two of the largest, to leave the Labor Council and announce the formation of a new entity, the San Diego Working Families Council.
The dramatic moves follow months of turmoil in the local labor movement following allegations of sexual harassment against Mickey Kasparian, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 135 and now ousted leader of the Labor Council. Kasparian and Dale Bankhead, who was also pushed out as secretary-treasurer, plan a press conference for Tuesday morning.
Jerry Butkiewicz, the former secretary-treasurer of the Labor Council, will help take over as a trustee of the organization. Keith Maddox, a national representative of the AFL-CIO, will serve as deputy.
Maddox told me late Monday that the move comes after weeks of effort and inquiry into the controversy in the organization. Maddox had previously assured local leaders that the AFL-CIO was not going to take over the local council.
"We worked hard to find a solution short of a trusteeship but it has gotten to the point that wasn't going to happen," Maddox said. He confirmed the decision was Trumka's.
"Right now we need to rebuild the council back to its power," he said.
That will be not be easy, at least not at first. The union Kasparian leads is the largest in the county. Also joining Kasparian's new coalition are Service Employees International Union Local 221, Teamsters Local 542, Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 30, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1309, Laborers International Union Local 89 and Communications Workers of America Local 9509.
On the other hand, other unions had already left the Labor Council in the midst of all the turmoil. Some may return.
Kasparian and his allies have been in a sometimes vicious battle of rhetoric with rivals on the Labor Council, led by the San Diego Building Trades Council, its own coalition of construction-focused unions. Tensions have been high and both sides fought over who they should support for president of the San Diego City Council: Councilman David Alvarez or Councilwoman Myrtle Cole. With Kasparian and the Labor Council's backing, Cole won.
Kasparian offered only a simple statement.
"Their decision was in reaction to what we had planned," he wrote in a message saying he'd have more to say at the press conference Tuesday morning at the headquarters of UFCW Local 135.
Update: Wording was updated for clarity.
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Iranian call for the "convergence of Islamic movements"
Today, in the supra-neo-colonialism scheme, the West's confrontation and defiance towards the World of Islam has reached its height. Therefore, the need for separate Islamic movements in various Muslim states is not of issue as it was in the 20th Century. On the contrary, what is of importance to the World of Islam is the convergence of Islamic movements against the Western neo-colonialism.
The concept of "Islamic reawakening" that was initiated by the Islamic revolution in Iran and is on the ascent with the passage of time is devoid of nationalist tendencies. The moving engine of Islamic reawakening is the quest for Islam in the light of the formation of the Islamic umma. The Islamic movements in the Sunni inhabited states must re-appraise the concepts and indications that revolve around the superior reasons for Islamic reawakening so that one can witness the unity of word among the masses under the convergence of the Islamic movements.
In an ecumenical meeting with the Shi'i and Sunni scholars, the Supreme Leader [Khamene'i] made certain statements about the unity of the Islamic umma, saying: "We have to create the principles of an academic, true and sincerely realistic unity between the Sunni and Shi'is... The distinguished in the struggle against colonialism and global arrogance have doubly stressed the need for the "Islamic umma unity". Notice how Seyyed Jamaleddin Asadabadi (may God be satisfied with him), known as Afghani, and his novice Sheykh Mohammad Abdo and others, and the late Sharafoddin Ameli and other great ones from the Shi'i scholars endeavoured in the struggle against colonialism not to allow this easy tool to turn into a weapon in the hands of colonialism against the World of Islam.


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Q: Specify HTML method in Formtastic action link In a Formtastic semantic_form_for, I want the Cancel link to point to the destroy action of a controller via the delete method:
= semantic_form_for @user, url: password_reset_path(params[:id]) do |f|
    = f.inputs do
        = f.input :password
        = f.input :password_confirmation
    = f.actions do
        = f.action :submit, label: 'Reset password'
        = f.action :cancel, label: 'Cancel password reset',
            as: :link, url: password_reset_path(params[:id]), html: { method: :delete }

It is the html: { method: :delete } part that I would like to get to work, so that my temporary resource "password reset" is immediately destroyed via password_resets#destroy when the user clicks on the Cancel link.
Note that this is not about specifying the HTML method for the entire form (as has been asked elsewhere).
The above code ignores the DELETE method, so that I wonder how I can accomplish this?

A: Use button_html option.
Try it!
<%= f.action :cancel, :label => "Cancelar", url: order_path(@order), button_html: {method: :delete} %>

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Juventus Win Eighth Consecutive Serie A Title
Juventus' forward Cristiano Ronaldo (C-L) celebrates with teammates after Fiorentina scored an own goal following his shot during the Italian Serie A football match Juventus vs Fiorentina on April 20, 2019 at the Juventus stadium in Turin. Marco Bertorello / AFP
Juventus claimed their eighth consecutive Serie A title on Saturday with a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Fiorentina.
Alex Sandro's diving header after 37 minutes and an own goal from Fiorentina defender German Pezzella after a Cristiano Ronaldo cross on 53 minutes sealed a 35th Scudetto.
Serbian defender Nikola Milenkovic had put Fiorentina ahead after six minutes.
Juventus are 20 points clear of nearest rivals Napoli with just five games to play.
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Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo said he was "1,000 per cent committed to staying" with Juventus next season as he claimed his first Serie A title and Juventus their eighth in a row on Saturday.
Massimiliano Allegri's side had needed just one more point for a 35th Scudetto and their latest title triumph helped ease some of the pain of their shock Champions League exit at the Juventus Stadium to Ajax on Tuesday.
And a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Fiorentina was enough to give them a 20-point lead on nearest rivals Napoli with five games to play.
Serbian defender Nikola Milenkovic put Fiorentina ahead after less than six minutes.
But Alex Sandro's diving header on 37 minutes and an own goal from Fiorentina defender German Pezzella after a Ronaldo cross in the 53rd minute sealed another title to ease their European disappointment.
"It was a great season and I adapted well. We won the Scudetto and the Italian Super Cup, which is not easy to achieve," said Ronaldo.
"It didn't go well in the Champions League but next year it will be better.
"I'm staying at Juve, 1,000 per cent."
It was the 34-year-old's sixth domestic league title, having won three with Manchester United and two with Real Madrid.
The Portuguese star now has 28 trophies in total, including the Euro 2016 title with Portugal.
Bolstered by five-time Ballon d'Or winner Ronaldo, Juventus dominated the domestic league with the best attack and defence.
He has scored 19 goals and had six decisive crosses, and is in the running for the top scorer award along with Sampdoria's Fabio Quagliarella, who has 22 goals and AC Milan's Krzysztof Piatek on 21.
Juventus have lost only two matches, against Genoa and SPAL, with 28 wins and three draws.
Their eight straight title sees them overtake French club Lyon for the record of consecutive victories in the top five European leagues.
Juventus also equalled the record for the earliest the Italian title has been won, with five games to spare, achieved by Torino in 1948, Fiorentina in 1956 and Inter Milan in 2007.
Juventus succeeded despite having been hit hard by injuries with defender Giorgio Chiellini out along with Sami Khedira, Mario Mandzukic, Paulo Dybala and Douglas Costa.
Ronaldo threatened early, but defender Milenkovic gave Fiorentina hope of a first win in eight trips to the Allianz Stadium.
Giovanni Simeone had the ball in the back of the net on 25 minutes but the goal was ruled offside, before Sandro got his head to Miralem Pjanic's corner to pull the teams level before the break.
Ronaldo pushed forward after the break, crossing for Federico Bernardeschi, but Pezzella clumsily turned into his own net.
Allegri brought on teenage star Moise Kean in place of Bernardeschi on 74 minutes, but the 19-year-old could not add to his six goals in his previous six appearances.
Meanwhile, Juventus remain on track to match the record 102 points achieved under Antonio Conte in 2014.
Posted on April 20, 2019 April 20, 2019 Author SimonCategories SportsTags Juventus, Seria ALeave a comment on Juventus Win Eighth Consecutive Serie A Title
Bale To Miss Gijon Match
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Gareth Bale has been ruled out of Real Madrid's La Liga clash with Sporting Gijon on Saturday.
The Welshman picked up a muscular problem during Wednesday's UEFA Champions League victory against Bayern Munich and had to be substituted.
It has now been confirmed that the 27-year-old has an issue with his right soleous muscle that could be connected to the ankle injury that was operated on in November 2016.
Posted on April 14, 2017 April 14, 2017 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories SportsTags bbcsports, Bet9ja, Channelssports, completesports.com, EPL, GAreth Bale, Goal.com, La Liga, Seria A, Supersports, UEFA Champions LeagueLeave a comment on Bale To Miss Gijon Match
Enrique To Leave Barca By End Of Season
The FC Barcelona Coach, Luis Enrique, has confirmed that he would leave the Spanish La Liga champions at end of the season when his contract expires.
Enrique made the announcement at a news conference after Barcelona thrashed Sporting Gijon 6-1 at the Nou Camp, to keep up their bid for a third league title under the management of their former midfielder.
Barcelona won the treble in their first season under Enrique after he replaced Gerardo Martino in 2014 and followed it up with a double last season.
However, performances as much as results this season have led to increased speculation over his future.
Posted on March 2, 2017 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories SportsTags Barca, Barcelona, Channels News, Channels TV, Channelssports, Completesportsnigeria.com, Enrique To Leave Barca At End Of Season, FC Barcelona, FC Barcelona Coach, Gerardo Martino, La Liga, NairaBet.com, Nou Camp, Premier League, Sccoer.net, Season, Seria A, SkySports, Sporting Gijon, Superbet, Supersports, SuperSports.comLeave a comment on Enrique To Leave Barca By End Of Season
Arsenal bids £9 million for Corinthians midfield maestro Paulinho
Arsenal showed their optimism to bring over Corinthians midfielder, José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Jùnior, majorly known as Paulinho to their fold as a Gunner as a bid of £9 million was thrown at his Brazilian club.
His form in the last 18 months, impressive string of results for his club, has combined to create a firestorm of interest from Italy to England.
With this stated, Arsenal may have be ready for a showdown with Inter Milan as reports of interest from Inter Milan were made public but Corinthians for now are insisting the maestro stays at home and to make sure that happens the team President Mario Gobbi released a statement to that effect and also decided that the player's wages be increased in an effort to keep him happy in Brazil.
The 23-year-old midfielder was instrumental in helping Corinthians win their first Copa Libertadores Trophy in 2012. His play in this tournament came on the heels of an impressive 2011 campaign in the Brasileirao Série A, where he drove Corinthians to their sixth league championship.
He is known for his clever runs into the attacking third and his ability to finish in the air or on the ground. His intelligence and creativity will undoubtedly fit right in with Arsenal's attacking mentality.
As for Paulinho's say in all of this, it would seem that he would prefer to stay in Brazil. In response to learning about Inter's interest in him, the midfielder said for Inter Milan to have interest in his person affects him but his preference will be Corinthians and they insist that he should stay at home in brazil which is with Corinthians, then he is ready to go into talks with his club.
For Arsenal, this move if it comes through makes so much sense for the Gunners' club as the 5'11" attacking midfielder would seem to fit perfectly in the maestro role left vacant since Cesc's departure in 2011 which is why an offer of £9 million shouldn't not matter to the club also a re-think should be done on this offer on the part of Corinthians and Paulinho himself.
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British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) applied for a license to market its HIV drug, dolutegravir, in a child-friendly formulation that, if approved by regulators, will become the first new generation HIV medicine available in a child-friendly form. Developed by GSK's HIV drug division ViiV Healthcare, this new formulation of dolutegravir is designed to be easier for babies and children to swallow. Because there is no licensed version of dolutegravir for children, doctors often prescribe older HIV medicines that can be less potent, harder to take, and have more side effects. GSK plans an initial rollout of the child-friendly formulation at "cost of production" early next year, pending licensure by US and European regulators, and is also planning licensing agreements with two generic drug makers who aim to make cheaper versions of the medicine available within months of the initial rollout. According to UNAIDS, approximately 1.7 million children are living with HIV, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
According to reports released by Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Stop TB Partnership, global funding for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) has reached an all-time high, though funding targets for efforts to eliminate the disease remain far from being met. According to the TAG report, TB R&D funding reached its highest level in 2018 at US$916 million, representing three consecutive years of funding increases. However, the Stop TB Partnership's updated Global Plan to End TB—which aligns with the commitments made at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB in September 2018—calls for $2.6 billion per year for R&D for new diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines, in addition to the $13 billion needed for TB prevention and care. The Stop TB Partnership notes that reaching these funding goals would help provide care for 40 million people living with TB, enable 30 million to get preventive treatment, and put new diagnostics and treatment tools within reach by 2030.
A new program approved by the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), will fund a global emergency stockpile of Ebola vaccines that will be open for use by those in need of outbreak and prevention efforts. The program will be funded for $178 million through 2025 and will focus on low- and middle-income countries who will have access to the stockpile free of charge and will also receive support for the operational costs of vaccination campaigns. The World Health Organization's SAGE Working Group on Ebola Vaccines and Vaccinations state that the stockpile should maintain 500,000 licensed doses of vaccines. In addition to the Ebola vaccine stockpile, Gavi will allocate another $1.6 million in funding for the RTS,S malaria vaccine implementation program from 2021-2023, which is ongoing in three African nations, which will evaluate the vaccine's effectiveness in reducing childhood deaths when used in real word settings.
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July 3, 2017 TrendspottingABC, BBC, Craig Pearce, Shekhar Kapur, Still Star-Crossed, TNT, Upstart Crow, Will, William ShakespeareStephen Arnell
With TNT's Will and ABC's Romeo & Juliet sequel Still Star-Crossed airing this summer, Stephen Arnell looks at William Shakespeare's record as a drama character in his own right.
From the BBC's recent The Hollow Crown and Russell T Davies' Midsummer Night's Dream (pictured top) to Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, Michael Fassbender's Macbeth and Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus, TV or movie adaptations of the William Shakespeare's work always seem to be in production.
And, of course, spoofs (Gnomeo & Juliet, Hamlet Goes Business, Strange Brew), present-day versions using Shakespeare's plotlines but ditching the verse (My Kingdom/King Lear and My Own Private Idaho/Henry IV and V) and teen comedies based on his work but similarly verse-free, such as 10 Things I Hate About You (The Taming of The Shrew), Get Over It (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and She's The Man (Twelfth Night) have become cottage industries in themselves.
Movie classics Forbidden Planet, West Side Story, Akira Kurosawa's Ran and The Lion King were not-so-thinly veiled takes on The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear and Hamlet respectively.
Will is coming to TNT in the US next week
But recent years have seen a new twist, with Shakespeare the man making increasing appearances as a character on TV and in movies.
This month will see US cable channel TNT debut the 'young Shakespeare' series Will, which launches on July 10. Originally intended for the now defunct Pivot, Will is part of TNT's ongoing transformational drama drive, led by ex-Fox boss Kevin Reilly.
Apparently presenting the feisty iconoclastic 'rock 'n' roll' side of the Bard, the tone of the series looks set to mirror writer and creator Craig Pearce's previous work as the scribe on fellow Australian Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby.
Echoing these movies and other period dramas such as Peaky Blinders, Will boasts a contemporary soundtrack, although veteran composer Stephen Warbeck will be handling the score.
Coincidentally, Warbeck was responsible for the score to Shakespeare in Love, as well as the Henry IV section of The Hollow Crown.
Back in January, Pearce was quoted at the TCA Winter Press Tour as saying that his models in the show for the playwriting fraternity of Elizabethan England were rock stars Mick Jagger and David Bowie, adding: "Theatre back then was like punk rock."
Still Star-Crossed, on ABC, has received lukewarm reviews
The show boasts an excellent pedigree behind the camera, with the renowned Shekhar Kapur both directing and executive-producing Will. Having helmed both Elizabeth (1998) and its sequel The Golden Age (2007), Kapur obviously has a feel for the era.
To some, Kapur's statement that: "If today Shakespeare was around he would've been a rapper on the streets," may ring alarm bells for those who prefer their historical drama straighter than the likes of Reign (The CW) and Casanova (BBC3).
Looking at the acting talent on display, Will has balanced the casting of the largely unknown young British stage actor Laurie Davidson as the lead with a strong supporting company grounded in period drama.
This includes Colm Meany (Hell on Wheels), Ewan Bremner (T2 Trainspotting, Elizabeth I) and Jamie Campbell Bower (Anonymous, Camelot) as Shakespeare's rival playwright Christopher Marlowe.
ABC's Still Star-Crossed, the 'sequel' to Romeo & Juliet based on the popular Melinda Taub novel, made its debut in May. Produced by one-woman production powerhouse Shonda Rhimes (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder), the show's Brit-skewed cast includes relative newcomers Lashana Lynch (Death in Paradise) and Wade Briggs (Please Like Me), together with old hands Anthony Head (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and Grant Bowler (Ugly Betty).
The role of Count Paris falls to doublet and hose go-to guy Torrance Coombs, familiar to viewers as Thomas Culpepper in The Tudors (Showtime) and as Sebastian (Bash) in Reign (The CW). Reviews have been mixed, whilst audiences have declined from a soft 2.29 million launch, necessitating a schedule move from Monday to Saturday, typically the sign of imminent cancellation.
Variety commented: "While there's pageantry aplenty, the dialogue is littered with too many lumpy Shakespeare-lite lines and some jarring uses of slang." The Los Angeles Times wasn't any kinder: "Parting with Still Star-Crossed after one episode isn't likely to bring sweet sorrow, but rather the relief of a tragedy averted."
Shakespeare has featured as a character in a fair few movies over the years, including Roland Emmerich's Was Shakespeare a Fraud?, drama Anonymous (2011) and the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love (1998), the popularity of which tempted the French to try their hand with less success in 2007 with the similar Moliere.
On television, Shakespeare is currently the subject of Ben Elton's sitcom Upstart Crow (BBC2), a show which has gone some way to restoring the writer's reputation, harking back to his fondly remembered Blackadder – interestingly, the millennium special Blackadder Back & Forth featured Colin Firth as The Bard of Avon. And, of course, the period-drama-friendly Firth played Lord Wessex in the aforementioned Shakespeare in Love.
Recent comedy shows that have featured the playwright as a character include Comedy Central's Drunk History (where he was played by John Cho) and The History Channel's Great Minds with Dan Harmon, where in a bar conversation Shakespeare (Thomas Middleditch) praises the reviled De Niro/Efron comedy Dirty Grandpa at the expense of Harmon's own Community.
In April 2016, Tom Stourton (Loaded) played Shakespeare in the popular BBC children's history sketch series Horrible Histories. Prior to this, the Horrible Histories team were behind the little-seen 2015 comedy movie Bill, with Mathew Baynton (You Me & The Apocalypse) as the titular character, together with support turns from Damien Lewis (Billions) and Helen McCory (Peaky Blinders).
Doctor Who's 2007 episode The Shakespeare Code
Shakespeare has also featured as a character in the long-running sci-fi series Dr Who, notably in 2007's The Shakespeare Code, an episode that spoofed The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown and the Back to the Future and Harry Potter movies.
The episode sees the Doctor suggesting some of the playwright's most famous lines, including "All the world's a stage" and "The play's the thing" – which, to some, consciously mirrors Back to the Future's controversial scene where Marty McFly's guitar riffs 'inspire' a young Chuck Berry.
One has to go back to 1978 for the last fully fledged series with the Bard as the main character, ITV's Will Shakespeare, a six-part series starring Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, It) in the lead role and Ian McShane (American Gods, Deadwood) as his peer 'Kit' Marlowe.
Writer John Mortimer (A Voyage Around My Father) based each episode on the creation of a particular play, with Shakespeare often introducing autobiographical details, such as 'The Dark Lady' and a supposedly homoerotic relationship with the Earl of Southampton (played by Nicholas Clay).
Possessing the handsome production values typical of Lew Grade's ATV (Jesus of Nazareth, Moses the Lawgiver), the series may gain a second life if Will proves a hit.
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CBS in transgender breakthrough
May 16, 2016 GreenlightABC, Candice Renoir, Castle, CBS, Chicago Justice, Disparue, Doubt, Drew, Fox, France 2, Glenn Gordon Caron, ITV, Katherine Heigl, Laverne Cox, Making History, NBC, Newen Distribution, One-Two Punch Productions, Paradime, Shonda Rhimes, Still Star-Crossed, Supergirl, The Blacklist: Redemption, The Catch, The CW, The Disappearance, The Mysteries of Laura, Time After Time, Timeless, ToastAndy Fry
Katherine Heigl, pictured in State of Affairs
CBS's new legal drama Doubt will star Katherine Heigl. But it is the casting of transgender actress Laverne Cox in the show that is capturing the headlines.
US network CBS has given a series order to Doubt, a legal drama starring Katherine Heigl as a smart and successful defence lawyer who begins to get romantically involved with her client, who may or may not be guilty of a brutal murder.
The show is significant because it also includes transgender actress Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black) in the cast. Assuming Cox's role is one that doesn't propagate the usual stereotypes that surround transgender acting talent, it will be a major breakthrough for the community, which usually finds it difficult to get meaningful roles outside niche cable channels and streaming services.
Doubt's selection seems to have killed off another show's chances of progressing to a full series – at least for now. Drew, which is a contemporary take on the Nancy Drew books, was in the running for a series commission from CBS until Doubt was chosen ahead of it. There is a chance it will pop up at another network, though, as CBS Studios is still shopping it around.
The Catch has been given a second chance by ABC
Another interesting CBS story, as predicted by the US press, is that superhero series Supergirl is moving to The CW for its second season. In doing so, production will relocate to Vancouver from LA.
The move makes a lot of sense for a couple of reasons. Firstly, despite a very promising pilot episode, the show wasn't really hitting the mark in the very exposed world of frontline network TV. Secondly, The CW (a 50/50 joint venture from CBS and Time Warner) already has a strong slate of superhero shows including Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow, so it will be right at home.
The CBS announcements are part of a busy time of year for the US networks, which generally announce new series for their 2016/17 season in May. Another title in the news this week, for example, is NBC's The Blacklist: Redemption, a spin-off from the well-established James Spader series The Blacklist.
NBC is a big fan of brand extensions, having also recently announced the launch of legal series Chicago Justice to go alongside scheduling stalwarts Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago PD.
Castle has reached it final season
A bolder move by NBC is the decision to take Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan's time travel series Timeless from pilot to series. Bizarrely, that means there are now three time travel shows coming through the US networks system, with ABC's Time After Time and Fox's Making History also greenlit as series (and remember, we've also just seen Hulu's 11.22.63 air in the US).
Of course, for every new show there's usually a cancellation to free up space in the schedule. This week's unlucky victim on NBC is The Mysteries of Laura, axed after two moderate seasons. Other cancellations include ABC's Castle, which is coming to an end after eight seasons on air. Create by Andrew W Marlowe, the show focused on a best-selling mystery novelist and an NYPD homicide detective who solved crimes together. When it started it secured an audience of nine to 10 million an episode, but as it comes to a close it is in the five to six million range.
Supergirl is moving from CBS to The CW
ABC has also cancelled Nashville, Agent Carter and The Muppets. One other show it might have cancelled on the basis of its season one ratings was Shonda Rhimes' The Catch, but instead it has decided to give the show a second chance in 2016/17.
This isn't a massive surprise given Rhimes' fabulous contribution to the network – but it has to go down as a bit of a risk. ABC's faith in Rhimes has, however, been further underlined with the decision to order another new series called Still Star-Crossed, described as a sequel to Romeo & Juliet. Interestingly, ABC also had the option of going forward with a Shondaland comedy called Toast, but decided to call it quits on that one after a pilot.
Another project in the news this week is Paradime. This one is interesting because it has been optioned from a novel that hasn't even got to publication yet, showing just how competitive the market for book rights has become. The novel, by Alan Glynn, is a psychological thriller about a man who returns to New York after a spell in Afghanistan and becomes obsessed with a businessman.
French thriller The Disappearance (Disparue)
The show is being developed by ITV and One-Two Punch Productions, with Glenn Gordon Caron (Medium) onboard to write and direct the series. The appeal of the project is partly down to Glynn's track record. His previous novel, The Dark Fields, was turned into the movie Limitless in 2011 and then a TV series.
Meanwhile, in Europe, the latest French thriller to be causing a stir is The Disappearance (Disparue), which has been compared to UK hits like Broadchurch and The Missing.
The show has been rating well on France 2, with an audience in excess of five million, and has now been picked up for broadcast by BBC4 in the UK. The Disappearance, written by Marie Deshaires and Catherine Touzet, is set in Lyon and tells the story of a 17-year-old girl who goes missing. As the police investigate the disappearance, a number of people close to the girl's family are discovered to have secrets of their own that they wish to keep concealed.
Newen's Candice Renoir went to NPO2 in the Netherlands
Although Disparue is a French scripted series, it actually owes a fair amount to other parts of Europe. It is, for example, based on a Spanish series called Desaparecida that first aired in 2007/08. And it was directed by Franco-Swedish filmmaker Charlotte Brändström, who has worked on Scandinavian crime series like Wallander, thus adding a bit of Nordic Noir to the show's DNA.
Still in France, Newen Distribution has sold its detective series Candice Renoir to Dutch public broadcaster NPO2. The show, which is one of the top-rated dramas on France 2, has previously been sold to ZDFneo in Germany, CBC in Canada, RTP2 in Portugal, Kanal 11 in Estonia and Fox Crime Italy, among other broadcasters.
tagged in: ABC, Candice Renoir, Castle, CBS, Chicago Justice, Disparue, Doubt, Drew, Fox, France 2, Glenn Gordon Caron, ITV, Katherine Heigl, Laverne Cox, Making History, NBC, Newen Distribution, One-Two Punch Productions, Paradime, Shonda Rhimes, Still Star-Crossed, Supergirl, The Blacklist: Redemption, The Catch, The CW, The Disappearance, The Mysteries of Laura, Time After Time, Timeless, Toast
Anthologies continue Amazing advance
October 26, 2015 GreenlightAmazing Stories, Brett Ratner, Bryan Fuller, CBS, Cruel Intentions, Limitless, NBC, Shonda Rhimes, ShondaLand, Silvio Horta, Still Star-Crossed, The Divine Monster, Universal TelevisionAndy Fry
The original Amazing Stories series was created by Steven Spielberg
In DQ's recent look at the growing number of drama anthology series being launched, we observed how most of these shows are season-to-season anthologies like True Detective, American Horror Story and Fargo.
This contrasts with the classic series of the 1950s to 1980s, which were episode-to-episode anthologies, such as The Twilight Zone.
However, it now seems there is a mini-revival in the latter group. After Netflix's decision to support Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller is planning a reboot of Amazing Stories, an episodic anthology that ran from 1985 to 1987 on NBC in the US.
In fact, Fuller's plan to resurrect Amazing Stories sits at the confluence of three trends. Not only is it an anthology, but it is a reboot of a 1980s TV series – another big development in 2015 (see Fantasy Island, MacGyver and more). And indirectly it is also a comic book-based series, because the original 1980s series was based on iconic science-fiction magazine Amazing Stories.
Limitless has been given a full season order
Fuller will executive produce and write a pilot script for the show, which will tell fantastic, strange and supernatural stories. Universal Television will produce, with Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank serving as executive producers alongside Fuller.
The original version of Amazing Stories was created and executive produced by Steven Spielberg for NBC. It earned 12 Emmy nominations and received five awards, but clearly didn't rate well enough for NBC. It was based around a 30-minute format, so it will be fascinating to see if Fuller sticks to this or, more likely, creates hour-long stories. It will also be interesting to see how the tone of the series compares to another sci-fi anthology coming down the pipe: Syfy's Channel Zero.
The benefits of episodic anthology dramas are pretty clear. They allow broadcasters to present a recognisable brand while giving creatives the opportunity to conjure up an array of distinct stories. Audiences can tune in to any episode without having to worry about what happened the previous week, while high-profile actors can get involved without worrying about having to make heavy filming commitments.
The latter point is also true for actors who guest star in crime procedurals, of course, but the problem with these is that procedural guest stars are invariably villains.
There's one other benefit worth noting about episodic anthologies that is actually an advantage over season-to-season anthologies. This is the possibility of using episodes of the show as pilots for longer projects.
Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar in the Cruel Intentions film
The original Amazing Stories, for example, gave birth to Family Dog, an idea that was converted into a series for CBS six years later. Although Family Dog only ran for 10 episodes, it's an example of how the main broadcast networks might beat subscription VoD platform Amazon, which orders batches of pilots at once before putting them online, at its own game.
Still in the US, this is the time of year when the big four broadcast networks start to get a clear idea of which new shows are working and which aren't. They then act in one of two ways. More episodes of the successful shows are usually ordered, while unsuccessful series are either axed immediately or see their initial episode order reduced (a delayed death).
This week, CBS's Limitless was awarded an additional nine episodes, meaning it has now been given what is called 'full season order' of 22 episodes. Other new shows that have been rewarded with a full season order include NBC's Blindspot, Fox's Rosewood and ABC's Quantico and Dr Ken.
Heading the other way, however, are NBC's The Player and ABC's Blood & Oil, both of which have seen their original 13-episode runs cut. Previously, Fox's Minority Report was also cut back from 13.
Belgian series The Divine Monster is being adapted for the US
The quest for ideas with some kind of track record remains the dominant theme in the US TV drama business. For example, NBC is planning a small-screen version of Cruel Intentions, the 1999 movie starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Philippe and Reese Witherspoon. The film itself was a modern retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, an 18th century French novel about amorality among the French aristocracy. The novel has repeatedly been adapted for cinema and TV – usually as a true-to-period drama.
The best-known movie version saw John Malkovich play opposite Glenn Close and Michelle Pfeiffer, though British actor Rupert Everett appeared in a French miniseries version for TF1 that transported the story into a 1960s setting.
Elsewhere, Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta has joined forces with Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Prison Break, Red Dragon, Horrible Bosses) to adapt Belgian series The Divine Monster for the US. Based on the trilogy of novels by Tom Lanoye, the Eyeworks-produced original (aka Het Goddelijke Monster) aired on VRT's flagship channel Een in 2011.
Shondaland is making Still Star-Crossed into a TV series
In its original form, the show was a 10-part series about the downfall of a powerful family of European entrepreneurs and politicians at the end of the 20th century. In Horta's version the action transfers to Miami and explores the collapse of a corrupt real-estate empire.
Also in the news this week is Shonda Rhimes' Shondaland, which is working on an adaptation of the romantic novel Still Star-Crossed by Melinda Taub. The story picks up immediately after the death of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and involves another love story played out against the backdrop of Capulet/Montague feuding.
Destined for ABC, the young-adult show represents a new direction for Shondaland, which is best known for more mature dramas such as Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. The new series will be written by Heather Mitchell, who has worked on both of the aforementioned programmes.
tagged in: Amazing Stories, Brett Ratner, Bryan Fuller, CBS, Cruel Intentions, Limitless, NBC, Shonda Rhimes, ShondaLand, Silvio Horta, Still Star-Crossed, The Divine Monster, Universal Television


In 1933, travelling salesman Edward "Stubbs" Stubblefield was ungraciously murdered and buried in a remote Pennsylvanian field. After 26 years, a millionaire developer constructs a technological city of the future, called Punchbowl, on Stubb's burial ground, causing the former salesman to rise from the grave with an insatiable taste for human brains.
Now it's time for Stubbs to get some revenge on this sacrilegious city by turning the living into the undead in this entertaining epic that allows the gamer to use a variety of bodily functions to cause mayhem, death and destruction in the once peaceful city of Punchbowl.
The gameplay of Stubbs the Zombie is rather straightforward with the player using a variety of actions (many humorous) such as deadly gut bombs, limb attacks, explodable heads and also farts that can stun your enemies. Ironically as Halo, Stubbs can also commandeer vehicles and drive around the lovely city of Punchbowl. The beauty of the game is that when you turn a human, you can actually control these new allies.
The control system of the game is perfect, especially the combination of mouse and keyboard that the average gamer should pick up in no time. Match that with a very interesting storyline (some borrowed from the Romero franchise) and a healthy dose of humour and this title has something for everyone. The only downside to Stubbs the Zombie is that the game is relatively short with gamers finishing the title in about 10 or so hours.
Graphically, Stubbs the Zombie is a very impressive game on the PC that actually uses the Halo engine to convey this entertaining storyline. That's right, this game uses the Halo engine so rest assured that this title contains some extraordinary graphics from highly detailed characters with realistic textures to the amazing background environments of Punchbowl.
Musically, Stubbs the Zombie features a rather contemporary soundtrack that suits the game perfectly and match that with a plethora of sound effects from the rumblings of the undead to the screams of living... not to mention Stubb's toxic farts and one cannot but help fall in love with this quirky game.
In conclusion, Stubbs the Zombie without a Pulse is an entertaining game that beautifully uses the Halo engine, unfortunately some of the gameplay does feature a few quirks such as unstable framerate and simplistic gameplay. However, if you're looking for a quick and fun title to play then you might want to check this out!


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Q: Apply image width to  tag Before the Block Editor was implemented, the
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But since the Block Editor, this inline styling is removed:

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How can we add this inline width styling back to the
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A: I am assuming you want this value on the front-end as opposed to needing it in the block editor due to the
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If that is the case then you can use something similar to DOMDocument as per the following example:
Assume HTML of:

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Processing logic:
$html = '';

libxml_clear_errors();
$libxml = libxml_use_internal_errors(true);

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($html);

$elements = $dom->getElementsByTagName('figure');

foreach ($elements as $element) {
    foreach ($element->getElementsByTagName('img') as $img) {
        if ( $img->hasAttribute('width') ) {
            $width = $img->getAttribute('width');
            $element->setAttribute('style', "width:{$width}px;");
        }
    }
}

libxml_clear_errors();
libxml_use_internal_errors($libxml);

// for debugging purposes print out the modified HTML
echo $dom->saveHTML();

Feel free to add more conditional guards/checks for existing style attributes so you can append/parse accordingly as my example shows a basic use-case only to get you started assuming this method is suitable for you.

Resulting output $dom->saveHTML():

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Notes:

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*you could filter the content and/or resulting template prior to rendering on client via the_content and or similar

*you could optionally filter the content prior to save via save_post
LibXML/DOMDocument:
Due to issues with processing HTML5, DOMDocument will generate warnings as a result of errors raised within libxml. Word on the street is that these are fine to suppress however I was only able to suppress them via using:

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*libxml_clear_errors();

*libxml_use_internal_errors();

*libxml_clear_errors();

*libxml_use_internal_errors();

Alternatively you could use @ suppresion on:

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*@$dom->loadHTML($html);
...which is a little cleaner than the verbosity of four extra function calls.
Apparently this should work (since it was fixed):
$doc->loadHTML($html, LIBXML_NOWARNING);
...however I was unable to get this constant to work (could be version issues etc), see this and this.


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